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This time we're looking at a Japanese painting - Pine and Bamboo by Hasegawa Tohaku.
The image belwo is 2 sections of a larger work
This is a very "formal" work featuring Pine and Bamboo.
Bamboo is particularly difficult to paint as it requires advanced brush skills whether you are using an outline or "boneless" technique or combining both. Hasegawa could have used color and there are some beautiful paintings using color by later Rimpa and Nihonga painters but has stayed with a monochrome "palette" of black creating depth without perspective by using tones and space with a composition seeming random but well proportioned use of the spaces between bamboo trunks contrasting with low curves suggesting the ground and hinting at slopes.
Finally the contrasting but closely adjacent pine and bamboo branches above draw our eye right to left from light grays to deeper darker tones.
What can we learn from this about tones and layout ?
Or just enjoy the ink !
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